On Thursday, Vera Gail and I drove up to Eden to check out Carver's Cove Petting Farm. We just loved it! When we told the family about it at dinner, the boys really wanted to go too, so we headed out after school (they get out early on Friday) and went back up there, because the last day of September was the petting farm's final day before they close for the winter. I don't have pictures with all the animals, because I just took some with my phone, but they had cows, donkeys, several kinds of sheep, llamas, horses, miniature ponies, goats, hogs and piglets, bunnies, a portuguese potbelly pig (who looked like a mini-hippopotamus!), turkeys, geese, ducks, hens, roosters, dogs and cats!
Here are the kids on the tractor.
Emmett feeding some of the horses. All the animals at the petting farm were very, very sweet. You can tell that the owners are kind to them and take good care of them.
Vera Gail feeding the horses - her favourite was Reno, who she rode on Thursday for her pony ride.
Gareth feeding the horses too. All the kids really liked the horses.
Emmett petting a paint.
Emmett hamming it up on the tractor. ;-)
All of us on (or by) the old buggy.
Vera Gail 'driving' Emmett in the buggy.
Everyone on board!
Gareth ready for his pony ride!
Gareth riding the horse...I forgot this one's name.
Emmett having his pony ride.
Vera Gail having her turn on the pony!
Vera Gail having her turn on the pony!
The cowgirl in the buggy!
Some of the horses hoping for a treat. All their horses are former mustangs. Apparently the wild horses are rounded up periodically and some of them sold to keep the herd sizes in control.
The boys just loved that tractor!
The tractor was given a thorough examination by our future inventor-engineers (their current life aspiration).
This was a Thursday picture - this kitten, named Butterscotch, is like a mini version of our Tumbleweed! He was a very friendly kitty.
Vera Gail riding Reno (on Thursday) - named because she is a wild horse from Nevada.
